State Highway Commission v. Charmar, Inc.

ROY NOBLE LEE, Chief Justice,

for the Court:

The State Highway Commission of Mississippi (Commission) has appealed from a judgment of the Circuit Court, Yazoo County, Mississippi, denying it possession and/or damages for a building allegedly condemned by the Commission in connection with taking a right-of-way for highway improvement. The appellees are J.H. Pennington and Gladys Pennington, his wife, lessors of the land, and Kenneth W. Hel-ton, Charlotte D. Helton and James C. Myers, lessees of the property, who had built and were operating a Dairy Queen restaurant upon the Pennington property…